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Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Stachka (Motion picture).
Corporate Authors: First Workers' Theatre of Proletkult, Proletkulʹt (Literary organization : RSFSR), Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Other Authors: Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948 (Screenwriter), Pletnev, V. (Screenwriter), Aleksandrov, Grigoriĭ Vasilʹevich, 1903-1984 (Screenwriter)
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:No linguistic content
Language Notes:Silent film with intertitles in English; some signage in film in Russian, with English translation; accompanying music.
Published: New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2011]
Subjects:
Strikes and lockouts > Soviet Union > Drama.
Russia > History > Revolution, 1905-1907 > Drama.
Strikes and lockouts.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
1905-1907
Historical films.
Silent films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Soviet.
Drama.
History.
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Summary:Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.
Item Description:Blu-ray; disc will play only on Blu-ray disc players, Blu-ray disc computer drives and Playstation 3 game consoles
Blu-ray disc release of the 1925 motion picture.
Full screen (1.33:1).
"'Toward dictatorship'", a series of films on the workers' movement in Russia. First volume: Strike, in 6 parts." --Frame after title frame."
"Restored by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse"--Container.
Special features: Dnevnik Glumova = Glumov's diary: Sergei Eisenstein's first film, a short made to be used in his stage production of Alexander Ostrovsky's "Enough stupidity in every wise man" (1923; 4 min.); "Eisentein and the revolutionary spirit": film historian Natacha Laurent discusses Eisenstein's work in the context of the Communist Revolution and contemporary Soviet filmmaking (2008; 37 min.).
Physical Description:1 videodisc (89 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:Blu-ray; full-frame (1.33:1), 1920 x 1080p ; stereo 2.0.
Audience:Containes scenes of violence that some may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.
Production Credits:Camera, E. Tisse ; sets, Rakhals ; musical score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.